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Architects: Farshid Moussavi Architecture
- Area: 2740 m²
- Year: 2017
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Photographs:Paul Phung
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Manufacturers: Aluform, K-Line France, Serge Ferrari, Siplast
Text description provided by the architects. Folie Divine is the first of two ‘folies’ planned by the City of Montpellier on its brownfield sites, as a continuation of a history dating back to the eighteenth century, when local aristocrats and the bourgeoise commissioned architects to build spectacular grand mansions in garden settings, such as the castles of Flaugergues, de la Mogère and de la Mosson. However in French and English gardens, the idea of Folie has a longer history in which a playful structure with no practical purpose would be placed within a garden or landscape to elicit pleasure, luxury and wealth. As an idea, the Folie therefore plays with this leap beyond mere practicality.
